A brawl broke out inside the courtroom Tuesday morning after the sentencing of the man who fatally shot a 16-year-old girl 22 times in 2022.

In his written deposition to Montgomery police, filed hours after he was attacked at the city’s riverfront last weekend, dock worker Damien Pickett said he “hung on for dear life” as he was pummeled by a group of white boaters who disregarded his requests to move their boat so a dinner cruise vessel could dock.